Jesi Nelson is a Los Angeles based composer for film & media, conductor and orchestrator. She received her BFA in Music Composition and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Master of Fine Arts in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College. Upon her move to LA, she interned for Danny Elfman at Studio Della Morte, and soon after started assisting composer Michael Kramer, writing additional music for the Emmy nominated Disney/LucasFilm Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures TV series and Ninjago: The Legend of Spinjitzu, under his lead.

In 2017, she was selected as one of 6 composers to participate in the highly competitive Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound. As a result, she scored the award winning film JINN, which made it's premiere at this year's SXSW to great acclaim, with a theatrical and nationwide release later in the year. She was also the recipient of the Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation grant and was chosen to write the music for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival trailer played before each screening!

Recently, Jesi was selected to participate in the 2018 ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis, and has since been working on an array of projects, such as the film “Your Name Isn’t English”, written and directed by Tazbah Chavez and executively produced by Michael Pogarian and Taika Waititi. She also recently released the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the film JINN, which both the soundtrack and film can be found on iTunes and all streaming devices! Stay tuned for more news coming soon!